In the twentieth century, Ray Bradbury predicted the future. Here are 9 things that came true

In the 1950s, Ray Bradbury has created several works that surprisingly accurately predicted the technologies and trends that emerged in the future. Every year more and more inventions described in his books come to life. Here are a few of them.

1. A virtual reality

In the story "Veld" Bradbury describes the room with a sense of presence. It can create images, sounds and smells, as well as, according to the story events, and more work on material objects.

Smooth two-dimensional wall. In front of George and Lydia Hadley they gently humming, began to melt, as if leaving in clear distance, and African veldt appeared - three-dimensional, in color, like a real, down to the smallest pebble, and a blade of grass.

Ray Bradbury, "Veld"

Modern virtual reality technologies are not yet able to simulate the smell, but to deceive the brain sounds and pictures - completely. Prior to interaction with the material world is also close: already developing, which allows to "feel" virtual things with gloves

HaptX Gloves Launch Video - Realistic Touch for Virtual Reality with tactile feedback controllers, changingTactical Haptics' Shapeshifting VR Controller shape in user's hands, or fed into a muscle electrical pulsesHaptics for walls & heavy objects in virtual reality using electrical muscle stimulation.

2. unmanned vehicles

In the story "Pedestrian" and other works of fiction featured cars that drive themselves, but are also able to conduct a dialogue with people.

- climbs.

- I protest!

- Mr. Mead!

He walked unsteadily gait, as if suddenly drunk. Passing the windshield, she looked inside. And I knew no one in the front seat, not even in the car.

Ray Bradbury, "Pedestrian"

Current unmanned vehicles is not yet perfectly guided by the roads, and intelligently converse with people they may not succeed. But they probably will soon wise up: the scope of computer vision and artificial intelligence developed by leaps and bounds.

3. Bluetooth-headset

In the novel "451 degrees Fahrenheit"Radioperedatchiki- described in" shells "that fit snugly in your ear output sound without wires. It is poured out like a Bluetooth-headset AirPods.

In the ears of her tightly inserted tiny "shell", tiny, with a thimble, radio-sleeve, and electronic ocean of sound - music and voices, music and voice - waves washes the shores of her waking brain.

Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451"

4. ATMs

Also in the novel "Fahrenheit 451", you can find a description of yet another modern technology --night ATM. They look a bit wrong, as they represented the writer, but it is also, in fact, robots.

Montag went to the metro station, the money lay in his pocket (he had already been in the bank, open all night - it served mechanical robots).

Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451"

5. Smartwatch and cellular communication

In "Killer" in 1953 science fiction predicted the emergence of devices that will talk to each other at a distance without wires. In his view it was radiobraslety - small Soup as a clock with a built-in microphone and speaker. It turns out, Bradbury envisioned just two technology: cell phones and smart watches. For example, you can make calls with the Apple Watch - exactly as described in the book.

Psychiatrist, humming something under his breath, put on a new radiobraslet, flipped the selector talked a minute ...

Ray Bradbury, "Killer"

6. Smart House

In several stories, Bradbury found smart house. They are able to understand voice commands, to cook, clean, wash, even washing and dressing owners. Modern systems can change except the air conditioning settings, open the door and turn on the lights, music or TV, but with the development of Internet of Things list their capabilities necessarily expand.

They went down the hall of his home soundproof, such as "All for Happiness", which had cost them thirty thousand dollars (fully furnished) - this house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep, sang and played them.

Ray Bradbury, "Veld"

7. media sensationalism

One of the most exciting moments in "Fahrenheit 451" - for when the main character is being chased mechanical dog, a bloodhound and it is broadcast live on TV, using helicopters to cameras. With this and similar situations in other books Bradbury condemned the sensationalism of television and media in general. TV channels, according to the writer, capable of arbitrarily immoral acts, just to keep the viewer's attention.

visionary ideas were strikingly prescient: in the early 1990s, came up American channelsTelevision: Live coverage of pursuits is the latest trend in local news, but some critics say the coverage is not always newsworthy police chase broadcast live on television. To do this, they use helicopters with cameras on board. Often, the audience sees how the criminals hurt other people, police and even killedFox News apologises over live suicide in Arizona themselves.

If television cameras caught him in their objectives, then a minute later, viewers will see on the screens of twenty million running Montag - like in the old vaudeville with the police and criminals, persecuted and persecutors, he had seen a thousand time.

Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451"

8. LCD TVs

Huge televizornye wall - one of the most important technologies in the world, "451 degrees Fahrenheit". With them, the state provides public content, the brain does not load. Nowadays, wall screens yet, but there is a huge flat LCD TVs. Including the size of a wall.

It seemed to him that he, too, has turned into one of the strange creatures living between glass partitions televizornyh walls.

Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451"

9. social isolation

In many works of science fiction meets the theme of isolation of society. Due to the development of technologies people less and less talk to each other live ( "Fahrenheit 451"), do not pay close attention ( "Veld"), and sometimes even not at all out of the house for years, because they replace the world TV and robots ("A pedestrian").

Suppose that by 2019 the technology and not to turn people into hermits, but the problem of social exclusion is still relevant. Internet, designed to unite users from around the world, acts exactly the opposite, reinforcing many lonely peopleThe Internet and Social Isolation: Does Correlation Indicate Causation? their isolation, and worsen the condition.

"Now everything is closed in the evenings in their homes, like crypts," - he thought, continuing the recent play of the imagination. Crypts dimly illuminates the reflection of television screens, and people sit in front of screens, just dead; gray or colored reflections slide on their faces, but never hurt a soul.

Ray Bradbury, "Pedestrian"

Ray Bradbury was able to predict many inventions and future trends. But the main message of almost all of his works - the development of technologies that will turn people into brainless and soulless biomachines - so far, fortunately, was not realized. Hi-tech, more likely, It helps to solve the problems of humanity, rather than create them.